Felicity Huffman Net Worth

Felicity Huffman's Quotes

• My main experience is that this is a freelance business, and in a freelance business you're always sure your last job really is your last job. With the show comes job security.
• Having it in your pants is really different. Because all your focus goes there. It's like this thing, dangling, which takes all of your attention. It's no wonder that it's all they think about. [on the prosthetic penis she wore for her role as a man undergoing a sex change operation in Transamerica (2005)]
• I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are. [acceptance speech at the 66th Golden Globe]
• [on her Oscar nomination] I'm shot into the stratosphere. You can't pasteurize the Academy Award. You can't negotiate it. It is the top. It is the biggest thing ever. I've been hopping around and screaming all morning.
• In the new millennium, we're fighting against the icon of the perfect mother. I don't know about here, but in America you're not allowed to talk about how it's driving you crazy, or how you don't like it, or how, if you have to give a bath one more time, you're going to pull your hair out. Because then you're considered a bad mom. There's a very established conversation or litany, which is, "Isn't motherhood the best?" To me, that question just isn't applicable. You can complain about your job, you can complain about your husband, you can complain about your friends, but God forbid you complain about your kids.

Interesting Facts about Felicity Huffman

1. Jessica Alba was one of her students at the Atlantic Theater Company.
2. Graduated from the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where she majored in theater (1981).
3. Received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts for Drama from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1988).
4. One of her idols is Tina Turner.
5. She told Oprah Winfrey that when she was born, her mother named her "Flicka", but had to change it because it was not a Christian name. She still uses "Flicka" as a nickname. The name "Flicka" comes from the book and movie My Friend Flicka (1943), a childhood favorite about a frisky young colt. The name means "girl" in Swedish.
6. She was replaced by Diane Venora on the situation comedy Thunder Alley (1994).
7. On an episode of Oprah Winfrey's "Wildest Dreams" segments, Huffman's dream came true when she got to sing backup to her idol Tina Turner who was performing live for Oprah. [February 2005]
8. Grew up in Aspen, Colorado.
9. Her parents divorced when she was one year old.
10. Was among the guests at Marcia Cross' wedding to Tom Mahoney
11. Invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 2006.
12. Shares a birthday with Desperate Housewives (2004) co-star Jesse Metcalfe.
13. Has six older sisters named Mariah, Betsy, Jane, Grace, Jessie and Isabel and an older brother named Moore Jr.
14. Born to Moore Peters Huffman and his then wife Grace Valle (née Ewing), she and her siblings were raised by both of their parents.
15. Best friends with Patricia Wolff.
16. Likes herbal tea.
17. Sang backup for Rebecca Pidgeon's album "The New York Girls' Club" (1996).
18. Was forced to turn down a role in Jean-Paul Salomé's The Chameleon (2010) because of scheduling conflicts with Desperate Housewives (2004).
19. She has German, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, Scottish, French, Dutch and Irish ancestry. Among her prominent ancestors are her great-grandfathers, Gershom Moore Peters, founder of the Peters Cartridge Company and prominent Baptist minister, and Frederick Berthold Ewing, a prominent St. Louis businessman, and her great-great-grandfather, Joseph Warren King, who founded the King Mills Powder Company.
20. On March 1, 2012, she launched What The Flicka, a website dedicated to women and mothers where she is a regular contributor.